The Beauty of God's House: Essays in Honour of Stratford Caldecott - Softcover

For thirty years, Stratford Caldecott has been an inspirational figure in liturgy, fantasy literature, graphic novels, spirituality, education, ecology, and social theory. Hundreds of people have learned from his spiritual approaches to the great existential questions. 'The Beauty of God's House' is a Festschrift dedicated to him. The book seeks to cover the whole range of Caldecott's interests, from poetics to politics. Anyone interested in the field of theology and the arts will find much to intrigue them in this delightful multi-authored volume. The common core of Stratford's interests is in the beauty of the cosmos and how it reflects the beauty of God. This book is about the beauty of God's "realm", and it conceives God's realm as the arts, politics, liturgy, religions, and human life. It touches on the many places where beauty and spirituality overlap. It is an engagement in theological aesthetics that goes well beyond the "aesthetic".

Francesca Aran Murphy is professor of systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame du Lac. She is the author of 'God Is Not a Story' (2009).